Introduction Gunnar Iversen and Mariah Larsson Section 1: General overview Section 1 Introduction Gunnar Iversen and Mariah Larsson Chapter 1: The Sámi Film Wave: Sápmi and Sámi Film Culture Stine Agnete Sand Chapter 2: Ultrasmall Cinemas of the North Atlantic: Greenland and the Faroe IslandsAnders Grønlund Chapter 3: What Makes a Film Nordic? The Evolution of ''Immigrant'' Filmmaking in the Nordic Countries Linda Haverty Rugg Chapter 4: Nordic Cinema and Film Politics: The Norwegian Case Ove Solum and Dag Asbjørnsen Chapter 5: Sustainable Nordic Screens: Environmental Content, Banal Materialism and Sustainable Production Practice in Nordic Film, TV, and Streaming Media Pietari Kääpä Section 2: Nation, Identities, History Section 2 Introduction Mariah Larsson and Gunnar Iversen Chapter 6: Norwegian Apocalypse: The Happiest People in the World Imagines Disasters Gunnar Iversen Chapter 7: The Auteur as Bergman''s Persona Jan Holmberg Chapter 8: Vikings and Nordic Film Culture Bodil Petersson and Jes Wienberg Chapter 9: Sweden''s Top Comedians. An Introduction to Hasse & Tage for Non-Swedish Audiences Emilio Audissino Chapter 10: The Danish Bedside comedies Isak Thorsen Chapter 11: Heroes, Collaborators, Fighters, and Right-wing Populists: A Comparative Study of Contemporary Nordic Second World War-Films Erik Hedling Section 3 Gender and Sexuality Section 3 Introduction Mariah Larsson and Gunnar Iversen Chapter 12: Curating the Archive of Nordic Queer Cinema Dagmar Brunow Chapter 13: Feminist Interventions and Film Policy: The Work for Gender Equality in Nordic Film Production Ingrid S. Holtar Chapter 14: "One must alternately reconstruct as an archaeologist, search as a criminalist, or try to decipher like a psychoanalyst of the unconscious": The Reception of "Homosexual" Film Characters in the 1940s and 50s Ingrid Ryberg Chapter 15: Obscene Films and Obscenity Law in the Nordic Countries Mariah Larsson Section 4: Social Critique and Documentary Section 4 Introduction Gunnar Iversen and Mariah Larsson Chapter 16: Framing the Nation. Spaces of Everyday Life in Scandinavian Documentaries Ib Bondebjerg Chapter 17: Radical Scandinavian Documentary Culture in the 1970s Bjørn Sørenssen Chapter 18: Screen Stories of Growing Up: Nordic Children''s and Youth Films Anders Lysne Chapter 19: On the Critical Edge of Nordic Cinemas: Award-Winning Nordic Films as Social Critique Jonathan Rozenkrantz Chapter 20: Competing Screens? The Relation Between Cinema and Television in a Swedish Context Per Vesterlund 5. Futures Section 5 Introduction Gunnar Iversen and Mariah Larsson Chapter 21: Piracy and Digital Film Culture Pelle Snickars Chapter 22: Negotiating Content Rights with Global Streamers in Small Markets: A Case Study of Denmark''s ''Streaming Crisis'' Nina Vindum Rasmussen and Vilde Schanke Sundet Chapter 23: Nordic Animation and the Digital Revolution Jonas Lindkvist Chapter 24: Nordic Film History, Digitization and Online Access Eirik Frisvold Hanssen Bibliography Index.